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[muzikgui76]

Hello all!

 I am a big fan of music, and a new user of Media Center.  When I found out you can change the bit-rate, sample-rate, etc., I got a rather "bright" idea, to create my own "high-Resalution" CD's, like the one's you find in the store's. (24bit-96KHZ). The only thing is, when I'm done burning (after making any need ajustments), the audio quality is yes better or "crisper", but it also sound rather "recessed", or "held back". it just doesn't seem to have any "pop" to it. I am using my dad sound system wich consist's of an Onkyo 502 receiver, and Bose speaker's.  I have a Dell dimension2400, with no added goodies other  than a little extra RAM, and a larger harddrive. The cd-burner that came with it is what I'm using to burn my CD's, wich is made by Samsung, and the audiodriver(s), are intergratted, and by SOUNDMAX.  Can anyone please help me with this little problem? Feel free to email me about this. (I would LOVE to be able to make my own HighResolution CD's..I would so much be in HEVEN!)  Thank You all!!

[sail121j]

  You cannot get higher resolution that the source... I gather you are ripping from commercial CDs and since the source in 'normal' e.g. 16 bit and 48K sample rate, changing it to a higher rate will do nothing, in fact, you probably will have worse sound.  You need to record the source at the higher bit rate to begin with - you cannont do this from CDs.

[Myron]

Done properly, upsampling will certainly not degrade your original source material.  However, the upsampled files will not contain any more information than the original.  There are a fair number of CD players, outboard DACs and preamps that contain hardware upsampling.  I've recently built my own upsampler / DAC and I can definitely say that there is no degradation. 

I don't believe the CD format allows for greater bit depth or sample rates.  You'd have to use the DVD audio format to get the 24 bit 96 kHz capability you're looking for.

I'd say that any chahges you're hearing are being caused by the process of upsampling and then truncating the data stream to make it fit on a CD.

[Alex B]

Hmm... an intergratted high-Resalution troll from HEVEN, perhaps?

[Myron]

Hmm... an intergratted high-Resalution troll from HEVEN, perhaps?

Hmm?

You lost me...

[Alex B]

Sorry, it wasn't for you. I guess the author is trolling.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=forum+troll

[Myron]

Sorry, it wasn't for you. I guess the author is trolling.

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=forum+troll

OK, no problem.

I know what trolling is, just didn't think I was doing it.